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Alkaloids of hairy root cultures of a Datura candida hybrid

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From the in vitro hairy root cultures of a Datura candida hybrid, 19 tropane alkaloids have been identified using capillary gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. As in the parent plants, scopolamine is the major alkaloid. Two hitherto undescribed alkaloids have been detected and their structure tentatively characterised on the basis of their mass spectral fragmentations.

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  1. Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Geneva Sciences II, 30 Quai E.-Ansermet, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland

    Philippe Christen

  2. Department of Pharmacognosy, The School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AX, London, UK

    Margaret F. Roberts & J. David Phillipson

  3. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK

    William C. Evans

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Communicated by M. H. Zenk

This work was supported by a grant from The Royal Society under the European Science Exchange Programme to P.C.

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Christen, P., Roberts, M.F., David Phillipson, J. et al. Alkaloids of hairy root cultures of a Datura candida hybrid. Plant Cell Reports 9, 101–104 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00231559

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